Posts published in “San Jose”

The City of San Jose deployed over a dozen police officers to its highly-anticipated December 4 City Council meeting, when public land near the Diridon Caltrain Station was sold to Google for $111 million. On the pretext of a “disruptive pubic”, Mayor Sam Liccardo ordered the city council chambers cleared…

As American voters sent a record-high 124 women to Congress in Tuesday’s elections, voters in Santa Clara County also entrusted female candidates with the most powerful local political posts. If results as of Saturday evening hold, 45 of the 91 members of the 15 city councils in the county will be…

Conservative members of the San Jose City Council have moved to block a proposal sponsored by Vice-Mayor Magdalena Carrasco and supported by a number of social justice organizations to extend the second term of Mayor Liccardo from four to six years so that all future Mayoral elections will occur on…

For decades San Jose’s corrupted Redevelopment Agency as well as the Mayors, Council Members (City Managers smartly laid low out of sight as the graft continued unabated) and the senior San Jose staff kept giving away big money. Even after the San Jose Redevelopment Agency was dissolved this bad…

On Tuesday October 31, the San Jose City Council dutifully signed off on spending a total of $14 million to acquire properties needed for the extension of Autumn Street and additional car parking for SAP Center. $11 million will go to the purchase of the Milligan commercial site for Autumn…

San Jose city officials endlessly blame the city’s poor fiscal state on the local jobs-housing imbalance, yet on Tuesday October 3 the Mayor and City Council dutifully signed off on an $18.9 million corporate giveaway in the form of reduced fees on four residential buildings downtown. Parks fees and construction…

San Jose City Council member Donald Rocha is asking his colleagues to allow city staff to investigate a potential ban on gasoline-powered leaf blowers in the city, due to the high levels of pollution they emit. The Rules and Open Government Committee (Rules), a five-member subcommittee of the City Council,…

The City of San Jose connected Japantown, Downtown, and the East Side with seven miles of car-free streets on Sunday, September 17. The city’s annual Viva Calle lures residents out on foot, bicycle, and skates with special events all along the route. “This is a fantastic annual event in San Jose…

San Jose’s latest corporate giveaway is $740,630 to Frontier Airlines and Alaska Airlines over the next 18 months, approved unanimously by the City Council on Tuesday, September 12. The City of San Jose doles out millions of dollars every year to “help airlines offset initial large costs to start new…

Over 100 residents packed a community meeting on September 5 about Minnesota Avenue, San Jose’s latest road diet Complete Streets re-design project. If approved by the City Council, San Jose would would replace nearly all of the four-lane street with three lanes and bike lanes, similar to how Lincoln Avenue…